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<span id="language"></span><h1>32. Python Language Services<a class="headerlink" href="#python-language-services" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Python provides a number of modules to assist in working with the Python
language.  These modules support tokenizing, parsing, syntax analysis, bytecode
disassembly, and various other facilities.</p>
<p>These modules include:</p>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference external" href="symbol.html">32.4. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">symbol</span></tt> &#8212; Constants used with Python parse trees</a></li>
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<li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference external" href="distutils.html">32.14. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">distutils</span></tt> &#8212; Building and installing Python modules</a></li>
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